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- Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains. — Bill Bryson
- A Jesus had to be crucified because he was an alive man. He must have called in his childhood, "Jesus, don't be… — Rajneesh
- Hence the Bible has no record of his years of preparation; the record is very abrupt. Something about his childhood is said,… — Rajneesh
- The really intelligent person keeps his childhood alive to his last breath.He never loses it-the wonder the child feels looking at the… — Rajneesh
- No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which… — Peter Ackroyd
- He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. — Herbert Gold
- A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood)… — Sigmund Freud
- The achievement of freedom is hardly possible without the felt mourning. This ability to mourn, i.e, to give up the illusion of… — Alice Miller
- A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die. — Francois Mauriac
- Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of… — Charles Spurgeon
- He knew by heart every last minute crack on its surface. He had made maps of the ceiling and gone exploring on… — Josephine Tey
- The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson